Australian Complex Predicates
Claire Bowern
- 05 Oct 2006
Vol. 32, Iss: 2, pp 17-33
TL;DR: The authors consider light verb constructions as a type of complex predicate which consists of a main lexical verb in combination with a lexically defective verb (of course not all complex predicates are VV constructions, and not all V V constructions are complex predicate constructions).
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Abstract: I follow Butt and Geuder (2001, 325) in considering light verb constructions as a type of complex predicate which consists of a main lexical verb in combination with a lexically defective verb (of course not all complex predicates are V V constructions, and not all V V constructions are complex predicates). I assume Butt’s features of complex predicates (extracted from Butt and Geuder 2001, 323327; see also Butt 1995, 2). The definition provided by Alsina et al. (1997, 1) is similar: each component of the complex predicate contributes to the predicate information normally associated with a head. Thus complex predicates are ‘complex’ because they consist of two (or more) constituents which do the work of a single verb; in other words, the functions of the predicate are spread across multiple constituents.
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